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<div><h1 class="article-title">How do I create a new course or project site?</h1></div>
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    <p>If you have the appropriate permissions to create new course or project sites, do so from <strong>View All Sites</strong>.</p>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Click View All Sites.</h2>
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    <p>In the header area of the page, click the grid icon (<strong>View All Sites</strong>).</p>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Click Create New Site.</h2>
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    <p>In the View All Sites area, click <strong>Create New Site</strong>.</p>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Select the type of site.</h2>
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    <p>Choose either <strong>course site</strong> or<strong> project site</strong> depending on which type of site you want to create.</p>
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    <p><em><strong>Note</strong></em>: If your system has one or more template sites enabled, you may also see the<strong> Create site from template</strong> option. </p>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">For course sites only</h2>
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    <p>If you choose to create a course site, some additional steps are available to you.</p>
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<li>In the <strong>Academic term</strong> menu, select a term. </li>
<li>Click <strong>Continue</strong>.</li>
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          Select the Course/Section Information.
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<li>Make selections from the <strong>Subject</strong>, <strong>Course</strong>, and <strong>Section</strong> menus.</li>
<li>Enter the username of the authorizer within your institution within the <strong>Authorizer's username</strong> field. This user will approve the creation of your site with the course sections you've requested.</li>
<li>Optionally add information to <strong>Special Instructions</strong> that relate to your request for the course sections.</li>
<li>Click <strong>Continue</strong>. </li>
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    <h3 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Or, click on the Still cannot find your course/section? link.</h3>
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    <p>If your course is not listed in the menu above, you may choose the <strong>Still cannot find your course/section link?</strong> to add a site with a custom course/section.</p>
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<li>Enter the <strong>Subject</strong>, <strong>Course</strong>, and <strong>Section </strong>into the text fields provided.</li>
<li>Enter the username of the authorizer within your institution within the <strong>Authorizer's username</strong> field. This user will approve the creation of your site with the course sections you've requested.</li>
<li>Optionally add information to <strong>Special Instructions</strong> that relate to your request for the course sections.</li>
<li>Click <strong>Continue</strong>. </li>
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<li>Enter (or modify) the site title in the <strong>Site Title </strong>field. </li>
<li>Optionally change the default language for your site to any of the available languages. Languages in this list will vary depending upon the language pack(s) installed on your instance.</li>
<li>In the <strong>Description</strong> field, enter a summary of the site's purpose. This information will appear on the new site's homepage.</li>
<li>In the <strong>Short Description</strong> field, enter brief information about the site that will appear in the site lists used by your institution. Some institutions do not make use of this feature.</li>
<li>Complete information in the <strong>Site Contact Name</strong> field.</li>
<li>Enter a contact email into he <strong>Site Contact Email</strong> field.</li>
<li>Click <strong>Continue</strong>.</li>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Select site tools.</h2>
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    <p>Place a check mark next to the tools that you would like to activate within the new site. Note that you can also <a href="content.hlp?docId=howdoiaddtoolstomysite">activate tools</a> after the site has been created. </p>
<p>Click <strong>Continue</strong>.</p>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Configure site access.</h2>
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    <p>In the <strong>Site Availability</strong> area, select a method of publishing the new site to students and teaching assistants.</p>
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<strong>Automatic</strong>: the site will automatically be published based on the timing of the course sections that you've included in the site.</li>
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<strong>Scheduled</strong>: manually set the date and time at which the site will be published. You can also optionally choose the date and time at which the site will be unpublished.</li>
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<strong>Manual</strong>: immediately choose to publish the site upon its creation, or use the <a href="content.hlp?docId=howdoicontrolsiteaccess">Manage Access</a> area of Site Info to manually publish the site later.</li>
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    <p>In the <strong>Additional Access</strong> area, indicate if there are any other types of access allowed. (This section may not present options if the administrative system settings have not configured additional access types.)</p>
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    <p>In the <strong>General</strong> area, select the type of users that will be able to access the site. You can choose either <strong>Anyone</strong> (which includes unauthenticated users) or <strong>Logged in users</strong>.</p>
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    <p>In the <strong>Global Access</strong> area, choose which users will be included in your site.</p>
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<li>Select <strong>Limit to official course members or to those I add manually (recommended)</strong> to allow only enrolled students and others that are formally associated with the course section(s) you've included.</li>
<li>Select <strong>Allow any Sakai user to join the site</strong> to make your site <a href="content.hlp?docId=whatisusermembership">joinable</a>.</li>
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    <p>Click <strong>Continue</strong>.</p>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Confirm the site setup.</h2>
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    <p>All of the selections you've made for the new site will display to you on the <strong>Confirm Your Course Site Setup </strong>page. After verifying the details, click <strong>Request Site</strong>.</p>
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